PhDr. Dagmar Pospíšilová. CSc.
Head of Asian Department
Curator of South and Southeast Asia Collections
Náprstek Museum of Asian, African and American Cultures, Betlémské náměstí 1, 110 00 Praha 1, tel. +420-224-497-519, fax +420-222-221-418
e-mail: dagmar_pospisilova@nm.cz
Education and Occupation:
- 1979: Graduation, M.A. Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague (Indian Studies and History).
- 1979 – 1985: Oriental Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, a research assistant specialized in the history of India. In 1982 the rigorous examination (PhDr degree)
- 1987 - 1994: National Library
- 1991: Graduation CSc. (equivalent PhD.)
- 1994 Náprstek Museum, National Museum, curator of the South and Southeast Asia Collection.
- 1996 - Head of the Asian Department, curator of South and Southeast Asia Collections, specialized in Indian Decorative Art
2008, November: India, National Museum, N. Delhi
2007, December: Indie, N. Delhi, 12th International Conference of National Trusts, New Delhi
2007, September: Italy, Naples, EuroSEAS (South East Asia Studies) Conference
2006, January-March: India (Indian Council for Cultural Relations, Orientation Grant)
1998, October-December: India (ITEC – Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation, Hyderabad, Salar Jung Museum)
1997, January-March: India (Indian Council for Cultural Relations, Orientation Grant)
Editorial activities:
Member of the Editoral Board of the Annals of the Naprstek Museum. Annals are an annual publication focusing on the presentation of the material culture of non-Europaen countries, namely the collections of the Naprstek - National Museum.
Academic activities:
- Casual lectures on Indian art, e.g. Faculty of Humanities, Academy of Music and Arts etc.
- Consultations on the PhD. projects including the collections of the Naprstek Museum
- Managing the practices of students from the Ethnological department of the Faculty of Arts and from the Higher school of the information technologies and retrieval systems
2008-2009: Sharing cultural memory. Historische ethnographische Sammlungen des Museums für Völkerkunde Wien (Austrian Ministry of Science and Research; projekt zpracování sbírek Fr. Czurdy, rozdělených mezi Náprstkovo muzeum a Museums für Völkerkunde Wien; www.formuse.at
2006, January - April: Indie (Indian Council for Cultural Relations, Orientation Grant)
2001, March - July: Scholarship by Gonda Foundation, International Institute of Asian Studies at Leiden, the Netherlands (Name of the project: Typological determination of metal articles from India from the collections of the Náprstek Museum of Asian, African and American Cultures)
2000: Workshop on Interpreting Asian Cultures in Museums organized by the British Museum Department of Ethnography, London
1998: two weeks in the United Kingdom, consultations at London´s Victoria and Albert Museum and at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford
1997: Workshop on Museum Collections Management organized by the Netherlands Museumvereniging in Tata, Hungary
Exhibition projects:
- 2009:
- Nias – the Island of Ancestors and Myths. Permanent exhibition held in the National Museum – Náprstek Museum on February 4th (curator)
- 2007:
- Women in Indian Art Tradition. November 2007 – February 2008 (curator)
- 2005:
- 1. INDIA –The Country of Traditions. Exhibition helt with the ICCR. Náprstek Museum (author and curator)
- 2.Collector Bedřich Forman – Adventure Journeys. Masterpieces from Asia, Africa and America. Exhibition, Náprstek Museum (author and curator)
- 2003:
- Ancient Bronzes of the Asian Grasslands from the Collections of the Arthur Sackler Foundation, N.Y. The Náprstek Museum exhibition halls (curator of the Prague presentation)
- 2002:
- 1. Borobudur. Photographic exhibition accompanied by a presentation of the Náprstek Museum´s Collections form Java. Regional Museum, Jičín (curator of the exhibition)
- 2. Život pod pagodaim (Life near pagodas). Photographic exhibition presented at the Náprstek Museum, Januaty 17th – February 24th 2002 (curator of the exhibition)
- 2001:
- Headhunters. Arts and Crafts of Kalimantan. The Náprstek Museum´s exhibition hall (curator and the co-author)
Selected Bibliography:
2009:
The Náprstek Museum's Indonesian Collections and their Collectors
. Indonesia and the Malay World, London, Vol. 37, No. 108, July 2009, pp. 125 - 146. ISSN 1363-9811
K problematice zpracování nejstarších muzejních sbírek (Issues in processing the oldest museum collections: The collections of Otakar Feistmantel,founder of the Indian collection). Acta Filozofické fakulty ZČU, 2009, 3.
2008:
Knotková-Čapková, B. (ed.),
Marková, D. a Pospíšilová, D., Hinduismus (Hinduism). In: Obrazy ženství v
náboženských kulturách (Femininity in religion systems), Praha, Paseka, 2008, s. 142-199, ISBN 978-80-7185-890-4.
Pospíšilová, Dagmar (ed.), Jezberová, Anna a Hladká, Iva. Nias. Ostrov předků a mýtů/The Island of Ancestors and Myths. Pavel Durdík a jeho sbírky v Náprstkově muzeu (Pavel Durdík and his Collection in the Náprstek Museum), Prague. Praha, Národní muzeum. CD-ROOM. 125 s.rkp. ISBN 978-80-7036-252-5.
Indonéské sbírky Náprstkova muzea a jejich sběratelé (The Náprstek Museum's Indonesian Collections and their Collectors). In: Krajané ve starém Orientu (Countrymen in the Ancient Orient). (ed. L´. Obuchová), Praha, Česká orientalistická společnost, 2008, s. 74 – 91 (Orientalia Bohemica – české země a Orient 2). ISBN 978-80-87180-01-3.
Indian Cultural Heritage Abroad and its Preservation in the Period of Globalization The Oldest Indian Art Collection in the Czech Republic. New Delhi, INTACH, 2008, pp. 69 – 71.
2007:
Deepa
Oil Lamps. Indian Metal Objects from the Collection
of the Náprstek Museum, Prague, Czech Republic. Annals of the Náprstek Museum,
2007, 28, pp. 37 – 77.
Muzejní sbírky jako pramen historie na příkladu indické sbírky Náprstkova muzea (Museum collection as a primary source of history). In: Orientalia Antiqua Nova 7 (ed. L. Pecha), Plzeň, Dryada, 2007, s. 191 – 198. ISBN 978-80-87025-13-0.
Pospíšilová Dagmar, PhDr., CSc. In: Who is Who (v České republice), Praha, Verlag für Personenenzyklopädien AG, 2007, poř. č. 5602042. 6. vyd.
2006:
Prezentace NM
– Náprstkova muzea ve virtuálním muzeu na domovských
stránkách mezinárodního sdružení ASEMUS, 2006 (Presentation of the Náprstek
Museum at homepage of the virtual museum of ASEMUS), http://www.asemus.org.
2005:
Bedřich Forman(1919 –
1985). Annals of the Náprstek Museum
2005, No. 26, pp. 3 - 5.
Temple lamp of Nepal . Metal Collections of the Náprstek Museum, Prague. Annals of the Náprstek Museum 2005, No. 26, pp. 51 – 57.
2004:
Cutters for Areca Nuts.
Metalworks from the collection of the Náprstek Museum
, Prague, Czech Republic. Annals of the
Náprstek Museum 2004, No. 25, pp. 1 – 16.
Indian Ritual Art . In: Knotková-Čapková, B. (ed.), Základy asijských náboženských systémů. Skripta (text book). Praha, Carolinum 2004.
2003:
Brazier. Metal Collection
of the Náprstek Museum. Annals of the
Náprstek Museum 2003, No. 24, pp. 13 – 18.
Bidrí - kouzlo kontrastu. Z dějin indického uměleckého řemesla (Bidri - Chapters from the history of the Indian decorative art). Nový Orient (New Orient, Prague), 2003, č. 1, ss. 2-10.
Indické užitkové nádoby (Indian Utensils). Nový orient (New Orient, Prague), 2003, č. 2, ss. 58 - 66.
Z temnoty veď mě do světla. Lampy ve světském i náboženském životě Indů . Nový Orient (New Orient, Prague), 2003, č. 8, ss. 337 – 345.
Sekáčky na arekové oříšky aneb výbava poživače betelu. (Nut crackers and the equipment of the betel consumer). Nový Orient (New Orient, Prague), 2003, č. 10, ss. 364 – 373.
Indická užitková a dekorativní keramika (Indian ceramics). Z dějin indických uměleckých řemesel (Chapters form the history of the Indian Art). Keramika a sklo (Ceramics and Glass, Hradec Kralove), 3, 2003, č. 6, ss. 32-34.
Starověké bronzy asijských stepí za sbírky Nadace Arthura M. Sacklera ( Ancient Bronzes of the Asian Grasslands from the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, New York) Nový Orient (New Orient, Prague), 2003, č. 5, ss. 238 – 239.
2001:
Collection of Bidri ware
in the Náprstek Museum and the National Gallery
, Prague, Czech Republic. Annals of the
Náprstek Museum, 2001, No. 22, pp. 1 – 25.
Who is Interested in Asian Art Museums in Post-Communist Countries? IIAS Newsletter (Leiden), 2001, 25, July, p. 43.
2000:
Asian Collections
, p. 47. Indian Collection, pp. 51 – 56. The
Collections of Burma and South East Asia, pp. 57 – 58. In: A Gudide of the
Náprstek Museum of Asian, African a nd American Cultures. Prague, National
Museum 2000.82 p.
Kovové užitkové nádoby v Indii (Indian Metal Utensils). In: Umění a řemesla (Art and Crafts, Prague), 2000, No 3., pp. 50 – 55, 78.
1999:
The South and Southeast
Asia Collestions of the Náprstek Museum.
In: Annals of the Náprstek Museum (Prague), 1999, No. 20, pp. 71 - 84.
1997:
Indická umělecká řemesla
(Indian Arts and Crafts). Proměny kovu (Metamorphoses
of Metal). Starožitnosti a užité umění (Antiquities and decorative art,
Prague) 1997, č. 12, ss. 22 - 23.
Proměny kovu (Metamorphoses of Metal). Praha, Národní muzeum 1997. 27 s., 12 colour pls.
